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Friday, January 31, 2014

The Republicans are said to be looking for "something big" to smooth
the rough places in the path to November, to make life easy and
comfortable for incumbents, something to get that infernal racket of the
guns out of their ears. Politics can be so fatiguing.

Suicide is "something big," so they're thinking about it.

Surrender
and suicide comes easy for certain Republicans, particularly when it's
surrender to greed and avarice. If you can wrap avarice in a little
piety, it's easier still. Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican
National Committee and the man who's paid to have the answers about
politics, says the "something big" has to be an "overhaul" of the
nation's immigration laws — not tomorrow, but now.

"I think
politically speaking it's a mixed bag, but the question is whether or
not it's something we have to do as a country, and I think that's what's
trumping the political answer." He just wants to do the right thing,
regardless of cost or consequences. If true, this would be a first in
American politics. Imagine politicians oblivious to politics.

But
that's nonsense and fools nobody. Other considerations are driving the
Republican establishment to throw in the towel on immigration. They're
tired of the daily beatings about the head and shoulders by the
Democrats, the contempt of the liberal media, the disrespect and disdain
of their own constituents who smell the sour aroma of sellout. The
aroma is drifting in on a cold wind from Maryland's Eastern Shore, where
the Republican soldiers of the House are in a comfortable "retreat" for
the weekend.

The "something big" plotted by the Republican
leadership is the warmed-over scheme by the Senate's so-called "Gang of
Eight," designed to grant amnesty to the 10 million or 11 million
illegal aliens already here, with a few "safeguards" that can be
dispensed with later.

The aim of the amnesty-mongers is clear.
They see how the Democrats have come to regard illegal immigration as an
endless source of new votes. Some Democrats call immigration reform
"our ATM machine," where votes can be withdrawn as needed. Republicans
are naturally envious, and some of them want one of those ATM machines,
too.

The Republican leaders, such as they are, are under
considerable pressure from big-business interests — not the
small-business interests that are the natural Republican constituency —
to open the gates for another wave of cheap and easily abused labor.
This would keep the workers already here in line, tugging at their
forelocks.

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama dissents from the
emerging Republican rush to suicide. His three-page memo, hand delivered
to every Republican member of the House, sets out the peril to his
party in the warmed-over Democratic plan.

The Republican leaders
are said to be negotiating with Democrats for the final legislation,
which only then would be presented to their own members. Nancy Pelosi as
co-leader of the Republican majority. Who knew?

Mr. Sessions
smells betrayal of American workers. Over the past decade, he observes,
more immigrants, legal and illegal, have arrived in America than in any
previous decade in the nation's history. This coincides "with wage
stagnation, enormous growth in welfare programs and a shrinking
workforce participation rate.

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